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Ad‘iyah
Du'a'
(singular of ‘
ad‘iyah
’) means a call or prayer.
A servant of Allah invokes his Creator to express
either his needs or his servitude to Him. This call in
itself is a form of worship.
Allah is a living and permanent existence. He hears
and sees and has the power to do as He desires and
set the course of events in consonance with His will.
It is this firm conviction which gives rise to the urge
within man to pray to Allah. When man receives inspi-
ration from Allah, it comes to him naturally to call upon
Allah for all his needs and to ask for Allah's blessings in
this world as well as in the Hereafter. Allah is truly
man's sustainer.
There is no time set for
du'a'
, neither is there any pre-
scribed method nor a separate language. Man, at any
moment, in any form, and in any language can pray to
Allah. If the prayer has come from deep inside one's
heart, it will certainly reach Allah. Allah will hear the call
without delay and will answer the suppliant's prayers.
Du'a'
means seeking from Allah and this seeking from
Allah has no ending. It continues eternally.
Du'a'
is an
expression of unceasing feelings welling up inside the
believer's heart for his Lord. No moment of a believer's
life can be bereft of it.
In the
Qur’an
, the importance of
du'a'
is stated thus,
"
Say: My Lord would not care for you were it not for
your prayer.
"
Du'a'
is one of the most important charac-
teristics that distinguish a believer from an unbeliever
and a significant indicator of one's faith in Allah.
Many people may think that there is no divine control
over the universe and that everything is interacting
independently. However, what they do not know is that
every creature in the heavens and on the earth has
already submitted to Allah. There is no creature whose
destiny is not determined by Allah and who is not obe-
dient to Him. The unbelievers do not understand this
substantial fact. The believers, on the other hand, are
aware that the only way to obtain the things they want
is to ask them from the One Who controls them. They
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